Quotations and Proverbs

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, `I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt 

If I had not been in prison, I would not have been able to achieve the most difficult task in life, and that is changing myself.
~ Nelson Mandela

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
~ Gail Sheehy

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission—a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment he finds greatness. It is his finest hour.

~ Winston Churchill

Freedom means choosing your burden.


~ Hephzibah Menuhin

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.


~ William Faulkner

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.


~ Thucydides

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
~ Charles Colton